Topic: tech event
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Google's Personal Intelligence Now Available to All US Users
Google has made its Personal Intelligence AI feature free for all U.S. users, integrating it into Search, Gemini, and Chrome to provide personalized assistance by connecting data from apps like Gmail and Photos. The feature, which is off by default, offers practical applications like recalling ca...
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Apple's AirPods Max 2 Arrives in a Quiet Launch
Apple has launched the AirPods Max 2, featuring an H2 chip, enhanced active noise cancellation, and new colors, priced at $549 with pre-orders starting March 25. Key audio improvements include a more effective noise cancellation system, a refined transparency mode, lossless audio support, and enh...
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OpenAI Secures $110B in Record-Breaking Funding Round
OpenAI has secured a $110 billion private funding round, led by major investments from Amazon, Nvidia, and SoftBank, to scale its AI applications and build the necessary global infrastructure. The funding includes substantial commitments structured as cloud services and compute credits, with a co...
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Early-Stage Startup Hiring: Avoid Costly Mistakes
Building the right team is a founder's most critical challenge, as hiring mistakes can drain resources and derail a company early on. The CEO of Mappa developed a behavioral intelligence platform to assess team and role compatibility, moving beyond traditional resume markers that often lead to po...
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Samsung's New Display Tech Protects App Privacy
Samsung has introduced a new dual-pixel display technology that actively combats "shoulder surfing" by limiting screen visibility to side angles only when a privacy mode is activated. The feature offers customizable, app-specific control, allowing users to automatically enable privacy mode for se...
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Wispr Flow Launches AI-Powered Dictation App for Android
The Wispr Flow AI dictation app has launched on Android, featuring a floating bubble interface and offering intelligent transcription that removes filler words and applies contextual formatting. The launch includes a backend upgrade for 30% faster dictation, real-time translation in over 100 lang...
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Spotify's AI Playlists Expand to the UK and Beyond
Spotify has expanded its AI Playlist feature, allowing Premium subscribers in the UK, Ireland, Australia, and Sweden to create music collections by entering descriptive text prompts. The AI generates customized playlists by analyzing user prompts, listening history, and trends, with each song inc...
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Meta's Metaverse Moves Beyond Virtual Reality
Meta is pivoting its Horizon Worlds platform to become "almost exclusively mobile," decoupling it from VR hardware to pursue a larger audience and compete with platforms like Roblox. This strategic shift follows massive financial losses in Meta's Reality Labs division, nearing $80 billion since 2...
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Give Your AI Agents a Shared Memory with Reload
The AI landscape is shifting from tools to collaborative teammates, driving demand for management platforms like **Reload**, which centralizes oversight of digital employees and recently launched its product Epic with $2.275M in funding. **Reload's platform addresses a key problem: AI agents lack...
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eBay Acquires Depop From Etsy in $1.2 Billion Deal
eBay is acquiring the fashion resale app Depop from Etsy for $1.2 billion, a strategic move to attract a younger demographic and a reversal of Etsy's 2021 purchase. Depop is a major social commerce platform popular with younger users, reporting about $1 billion in 2025 sales and a community where...
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Sarvam AI's Open-Source Models Bet Big on India's AI Future
Sarvam AI has launched a suite of powerful, open-source AI models, including large language models with up to 105 billion parameters, to challenge global giants and reduce India's reliance on foreign technology. A key innovation is the use of a mixture-of-experts architecture for efficiency, and ...
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Airbnb to Integrate AI for Smarter Search and Support
Airbnb is strategically integrating AI to transform its platform into an intelligent, conversational assistant for trip planning and property discovery, moving beyond traditional search filters. The company is carefully developing AI-driven features, including personalized search and expanded cus...
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Uber Eats AI Assistant Helps You Build Your Grocery Cart
Uber Eats has launched a beta AI feature called Cart Assistant, which allows users to quickly build a grocery cart by typing a list or uploading a photo of a handwritten list or recipe. The tool personalizes suggestions by learning from a user's past orders and allows for item swaps, aiming to si...
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OpenAI Shuts Down AI Safety Team
OpenAI has dissolved its dedicated mission alignment team, reassigning its members and transforming the team leader's role into a new "chief futurist" position. The company states the team's educational work on its core goal of beneficial AI continues, now distributed across the entire organizati...
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Fusion Startup Secures $450M From Bessemer, Alphabet's GV
Inertia Enterprises secured $450 million in Series A funding to develop a powerful laser system for a commercial fusion power plant, aiming to begin construction by 2030. The startup is commercializing the inertial confinement fusion method proven at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, which ...
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EU Orders TikTok to Disable Addictive Features Like Infinite Scroll
The European Commission has accused TikTok of creating an addictive user experience under the Digital Services Act, citing features like infinite scroll and autoplay that harm minors and vulnerable adults. TikTok must alter its core interface to comply, including disabling infinite scroll and rev...
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Amazon vs. Google: Who Wins the AI Spending War?
Amazon and Google are leading an unprecedented surge in capital expenditure, driven by the belief that controlling advanced computing infrastructure is essential for future AI dominance and market leadership. Amazon projects the highest spending at $200 billion for 2026, though part of this budge...
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Snap's Q4: Revenue Up, Users Down as Spectacles Prep for Mass Market
Snap's revenue grew 10% to $1.7 billion, driven by a surge in paid subscriptions, even as its daily active user base slightly declined in key markets. The company achieved a higher net income and average revenue per user, highlighting the success of its Snap+ subscription service as an alternativ...
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Waymo Secures $16 Billion for Global Robotaxi Expansion
Waymo has secured $16 billion in new funding, valuing the company at $126 billion, to accelerate its shift from testing to large-scale commercial deployment and expand its driverless taxi service internationally. The company is rapidly scaling its operations, now providing about 400,000 rides wee...
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AI Notetakers: Record and Transcribe Meetings Effortlessly
AI-powered physical notetakers are portable hardware devices that record audio and use AI to generate transcripts, summaries, and task lists, ensuring no critical detail is missed. Key devices include the Plaud Note/Pro, Mobvoi TicNote, and Comulytic Note Pro, which vary in features like transcri...
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